flea pits
Run-down movie theaters
Flea pits are run-down, cheap movie theaters—the kind with sticky floors, worn seats, and questionable cleanliness.
The term suggests a place so shabby it might harbor fleas.
British English uses it more broadly for any seedy venue: We watched the film at some flea pit in Camden.
The singular flea pit works the same way.
- fleapitDilapidated cinema
- grindhouseLow-budget film theater
- nickelodeonCoin-fed entertainment machine
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
- diveHeadfirst water entry
shabby · grimy · sticky floors · newsreel · decrepit · silent film era · nostalgia · vaudeville · kitsch · matinee · rundown · lowbrow · multiplex · neglected · fumigation · parasites · infestation · squalid